PRESS RELEASE: 

30th August 2002

DID AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN?

AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS AND HIPC DEBT RELIEF - THE RECORD SO FAR

PRESS BRIEFING with :

PRESIDENT OBASANJO of NIGERIA (tbc); 
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MARGARET BECKETT MP, Leader of the UK Delegation to WSSD; 
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS, Advisor to Kofi Annan and head of the Earth Institute at Columbia University 
ANN PETTIFOR, Director of Jubilee Research at the New Economics Foundation


Sunday 1st September
3.30-4.30pm

Sandton Square Library
Auditorium

Contact in Johannesburg Ann Pettifor 082 858 1116 (cell)
Sasha Blackmore 072 495 2512 (cell)

In a major new analysis of the impact of debt relief on African countries, Jubilee Research at the New Economics Foundation provides a briefing on their new report Relief Works. The report examines what African governments have done with the relief provided by the HIPC Initiative, looking at health, education and military spending. 


Notes to Editors:

Copies of the report Relief Works can be obtained at the press briefing and from Monday 2nd September from the Jubilee Research website (www.jubileeresearch.org) and also from the New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org)

The full report is also available online here.